SAGE News Clips: Analyzing GarbageAnthropologist Robin Nagle has been dubbed New York's very own "garbage guru." As a professor of Anthropology at New York University, Nagle studies the people of New York by looking at what they throw away. Nagle has been analyzing garbage for over a year investigating what she refers to as our "throwaway culture."Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 430, and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test, and answer the following questions:Nagle explains that because plastic is so new, we do not yet know its ______.
A. waste stream
B. potential
C. climate debt
D. half life
Answer: D
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